[240.] Arch^d Fish Esq^r New York [undecipherable] Accountants Office Sep^t 1^st 1800 Sir I received your letter [undecipherable] by M^r [undecipherable] enclos- [undecipherable] to you [undecipherable] $[undecipherable] for H. allow all charges for [undecipherable] making together nearly five dollars which will be entered on the Books of this Office — [signature] Arch^d & Leary Esq^r New Port R I September 4^th 1800 You will receive from the Treasurer of [undecipherable] the Sum of Eleven Hundred Dollars on account of the Fortification[s] [undecipherable] in the Harbor of New Port, for which [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] your duplicate is to be transmitted — [signature] W^m Moses [undecipherable] United [undecipherable] Springfield M^d Sep^t 8^th 1800 Sir I received your letter of the 1^st Inst^t which I now return to you that you may [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable] of M^r [undecipherable] & M^r [undecipherable] Monroe that you will [undecipherable] the Gen^l Williamson Dep^y Pay master Gen^l New Porter [undecipherable] a Settlement — [signature] Lieu^t B^r Lindsey Sep^t [undecipherable] 1800 Sir The Secretary of War has this day handed me an account stated by you for [undecipherable] expences amounting to [undecipherable] before me [undecipherable] of the propriety of this charge [undecipherable] will be necessary for you to send me [undecipherable] the orig- inal orders authorising the above charges on said account — [signature]